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Artist
Title

Untitled

Date
circa 1980
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Embroidery on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 22 x 15 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.
Style
Studio Crafts
Object Type
Textiles
Class System
Decorative Arts & Design
Class 1
Sculptural
Credit Line
Black Mountain College Collection, gift of the Artist
Accession Number
2008.45.02.70
Copyright
In Copyright
© Estate of Dorothy Cole Ruddick
Description

Abstract weaving with organic and geometric forms located at upper left. Done in black, white and browns.

Label History

Ruddick enrolled at Black Mountain College in fall 1945, attending through spring 1947. She studied with both Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky. Ruddick created nonfunctional, semiabstract compositions using silk, cotton, and wool thread stitched onto a linen background. Drawing on a sophisticated vocabulary of stitches, she created complex designs in which thread was used to create texture, as a medium for drawing, and as a foundation for modeled threedimensional forms. Visual illusion, or the “swindle,” a theme in Albers’s design class, is demonstrated in the grid on this work in which the illusion of shadow and depth is created on the two-dimensional surface. Her later work referenced Ancient Greek draped female figures, interpreting them in two- and threedimensional form

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Mary Emma Harris

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